How to use the Sentence Structure Report
Our Sentence Structure Report analyzes how your sentences start. It gives you the percentages of your types of sentence starts and compares this against published writing in your chosen genre.
How to select the genre of your writing
Selecting your writing style and genre is important to help the Sentence Structure Report work best. That’s because it compares your structure against published writing in your chosen genre.
You can choose from over 15 different genres, including fantasy, thriller, and romance, so it’s likely you will find a match for your creative writing. The way you select and change your writing style depends on how you are using ProWritingAid.
Find out how to change your writing style.
How to run the Sentence Structure Report
Now that you’ve selected the right genre for your writing, it’s time to run the Sentence Structure Report. Under “Reports,” click on the “Structure” icon. To help you find it, here is an image of the “Structure” icon below.
The Sentence Structure Report will run. Under the title “Sentence Structure Check,” you will see a list that shows the percentages of your types of sentence starts, as shown in the image below.
In brackets, you will see the percentage of each type of sentence start in published writing for your selected genre. All types of sentence starts will be underlined with color coding in your text too.
Click on each type of sentence start in the list to select from a small icon menu as shown in the image below.
Click on the eye icon to hide underlining for this type of sentence start. You can click on it again to show the underlining again.
Click on the chevron icons to jump to the next or previous sentence start of this type in your text.
How to use the analysis in the Sentence Structure Report
The percentage of your types of sentence starts helps you understand your writing better. You can see if you are overusing or underutilizing a specific structure, such as starting with a subject, an adverb, or a gerund. Even better, you can compare this to published works to find out if your writing is close to what readers expect in your genre.
Our Sentence Structure Report is different from our Grammar Check Report. Unlike grammar, punctuation, and spelling, there are no set rules for sentence structure. Instead, you can use the Sentence Structure Report to hone and tweak your current writing and think about what works in the future too.
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